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Cryovac date question ?

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Markarm4119
Markarm4119 Posts: 526
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I bought a full packer brisket at costco last weekend, with a sell by date of 8-16-17. How long can I keep it in the fridge before cooking? Will it hold to labor day weekend ?
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Buford,Ga.
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
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    Weeks.  You are fine.  It's called wet aging.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • Markarm4119
    Markarm4119 Posts: 526
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    Thanks
    LBGE, and just enough knowledge and gadgets to be dangerous .
    Buford,Ga.
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
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    Enjoy brother.
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • RRP
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    Then, when you take it out of the cryovac you can dry age it for 30 or 45 days more! That sell by date has meant more wasted perfectly good meat than should happen! Guess I should further explain myself - I don't mean ground meat like hamburger however! 
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  • DMW
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    RRP said:
    Then, when you take it out of the cryovac you can dry age it for 30 or 45 days more! That sell by date has meant more wasted perfectly good meat than should happen! Guess I should further explain myself - I don't mean ground meat like hamburger however! 
    Brisket doesn't dry age well.
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  • nolaegghead
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    DMW said:
    RRP said:
    Then, when you take it out of the cryovac you can dry age it for 30 or 45 days more! That sell by date has meant more wasted perfectly good meat than should happen! Guess I should further explain myself - I don't mean ground meat like hamburger however! 
    Brisket doesn't dry age well.
    Really?  I would love to hear about your science experiment....
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  • lkapigian
    lkapigian Posts: 10,767
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    nolaegghead said:
    DMW said:
    RRP said:
    Then, when you take it out of the cryovac you can dry age it for 30 or 45 days more! That sell by date has meant more wasted perfectly good meat than should happen! Guess I should further explain myself - I don't mean ground meat like hamburger however! 
    Brisket doesn't dry age well.
    Really?  I would love to hear about your science experiment....

    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 9,304
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    Just smoked a Costco cryovac'd packer a full eight weeks after its sell-by date. 

    Was easily the best brisket I've ever done. 
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    lkapigian Posts: 10,767
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    GrateEggspectations said:
    Just smoked a Costco cryovac'd packer a full eight weeks after its sell-by date. 

    Was easily the best brisket I've ever done. 
    In the fridge the whole time?
    Visalia, Ca @lkapigian
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  • GrateEggspectations
    GrateEggspectations Posts: 9,304
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    lkapigian said:
    GrateEggspectations said:
    Just smoked a Costco cryovac'd packer a full eight weeks after its sell-by date. 

    Was easily the best brisket I've ever done. 
    In the fridge the whole time?
    Yup. It was the first brisket I've done that still featured a really healthy giggle even after cooking. 

    Like I said to my guests, "either it will be the greatest brisket you have ever tasted, or you will be hospitalized; perhaps both."

    Give it a go. 
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